Week of May 15, 1954

Communism spreading - Soviet foreign minister

says that Communists will extend their grip into the

area.

President Eisenhower declares that America is “still

proud of our armed services” from civilian chiefs on

down to enlisted men.

President Eisenhower asks for progress reports on

coming moves to end public school segregation in the

district of Columbia, which some say could be a pilot model to guide other states

and school districts.

that President Eisenhower’s refusal to modify his

order forbidding testimony about top-level

administration conference on January 21, presented

him and his staff with a “stacked deck” that makes it

difficult for him “to get at the truth.”

Sen. McCarthy tells reporters he “will be there” when

the televised Army-McCarthy hearings reopen

Monday, but made no promises whether he will testify. The hearings will be

televised by ABC and DuMont.

Congressman Celler of New York said the McCarthy-Army hearing is “sufficiently

grotesque” now and declared that proposed commercial sponsorship of its

telecasts would “increase its absurdity.”

In a Gallup Poll - 49% of those adults surveyed want the McCarthy-Army

hearings stopped.

test was brought-on on behalf of Negro school kids in Kansas, South Carolina,

Virginia and Delaware. Said Chief Justice Warren - “We conclude that in the field

of public education, the doctrine of separate but equal has no place, this court

ruled. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”

Week of May 15, 1954

High school boys and girls by the hundreds riot in the subway in the Bronx. The

riots grew out of a field day for Commerce High at Van Cortland Park. Police said

students from other high schools played hooky and converged on the park until

there were some 2000 in all.

Vodka sales in Moscow drop with the cessation of sales of hard liquor at street

corner bars, due to incidents of drunkenness.

In Chicago - Siberian tigers escape from cages at the Brookfield Zoo and one

was shot to death. Most visitors didn’t know the tigers were among them.

Week of May 15, 1954

Week of May 15, 1954

Technology - The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.

unveils a device that automatically dials. Located at the

company’s main hub, it is a forerunner of equipment that

one day will permit a telephone user to dial any number

direct and skip an operator. The device remembers seven

numbers on each call, then looks for an open line and then

makes a connection.

RCA head David Sarnoff predicts that three-dimension television and world-wide

TV will be available within five years. He further predicted that 3-D television

would require no glasses.

children.

edited into a 45-minute documentary on the Ed Murrow-Sen. McCarthy

controversy. The film contains clips from the original March 9 Murrow attack on

McCarthy, the March 16 study of the Annie Lee Moss case, McCarthy’s attack on

Morrow on April 6 and Murrow’s reply and highlights from the Bishop Sheil talk

on April 13. Look for it soon on CBS-TV.

Week of May 15, 1954

NBC is dropping “The Voice of Firestone” on both radio and television. The

program features a 46-piece orchestra conducted by Howard Barlow and guest

soloists. It’s been part of the network for 25 years.

Seems that WATV’s (channel 13) move to transmit off the Empire State building

is providing a big boost in revenue. The station had its best-quarter ever as

advertising sales - particularly some 22 new national accounts.

Friday night television -

CBS - Perry Como, Mama, Toper, Playhouse of the

Stars, Our Miss Brooks, My Friend Irma, Person to

Person

NBC - News Caravan, Eddie Fisher, Dave Garroway,

The Life of Riley, The Big Story, Soundstage, Boxing

ABC - Stu Erwin Show, Ozzie and Harriet, Playhouse,

Paul Hartman Show, Who’s the Boss? Boston Blackie

DuMont - Drew Pearson, Front Page Detective, Life

with Elizabeth, Life Begins at Eighty

In Syndication

Week of May 15, 1954

Week of May 15, 1954

featured Pupi Campo. Joe Loco, Miguelito Vales, Tito Puente, Michael & Nilda

terrace, Annia Rodriguez, Gilberte Valdes, Candido, Annia Vales and the Sevlla

Port Dancers.

Record companies want to convert their DJ service to 45rpm discs instead of the

old-style 78’s. But DJ’s want service in the 78 fashion. Why? Because their

record collections are 78. Also, a lot of radio stations still can’t play 45rpm

records, but that’s expected to change before the end of the year.

Week of May 15, 1954

Capitol Records hits an all-time high sales mark of $17,740,000 for the past year.

Much of it has to do with the renewed popularity of Frank Sinatra and artists such

as Nat “King” Cole, Kay Starr and Ray Anthony. The label has a new act in the

RCA-Victor is out of the picture - it cannot package the soundtrack of Mario

Lanza’s upcoming musical because MGM has the movie and record rights.

Pop music this week in 1954 -

WANTED - Perry Como

I GET SO LONELY (When I Dream

YOUNG-AT-HEART - Frank Sinatra

MAKE LOVE TO ME! - Jo Stafford

HERE - Tony Martin

CROSS OVER THE BRIDGE - Patti

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A GIRL, A GIRL (Zoom-Ba Di Alli Nella)-

Eddie Fisher

ANSWER ME, MY LOVE - Nat “King”

Cole

LITTLE THINGS MEAN A LOT - Kitty

Kallen

SECRET LOVE - Doris Day

THE HAPPY WANDERER - Frank Weir

& Orchestra

JILTED - Teresa Brewer

ISLE OF CAPRI - Gaylords

At the movies -

March

Week of May 15, 1954

Danny Kaye